Quilting attachment for sewing-machines



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A. HEARTSILL.

QUILTING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES.

, No.272,688. Patented Feb. 20,1883.

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QUILTING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MACHINES.

No. 272,688. Patented P eb.20,1883.

3 EM Q WITNESSES INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT :Orricet ABRAM HEARTSILL, OF LOUISVILLE, TENNESSEE.

QUILTING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,688, dated February 20, 1883.

Application filed August 24. 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAM HEARTSILL, of Louisville, in the countyof Blount, and in the State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Quilting-Frames;

' and I do hereby declare that the following is a full. clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

This invention relatesto certain improvements in quilting-frames to be used in connection with a sewing-machine; and it has for its objects to provide certain improved means for supporting, holding, and adjusting the material to be quilted,so as to present it. properly to the sewing-machine, as more fully hereinafter specified.

The above-mentioned objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my apparatus; Fig. 2, a top view thereof; Fig. 3, an end view ofa traveling frame, showing the shafts of the rollers which carry the material to be quilted in section; and Fig.4, a vertical sectional view of the carriage on the line a: 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a detached view of the divided head-block, and Fig. 6 represents a top view of the supporting-frame, with the traveling frame removed.

The letter A indicates the quilting-frame proper, which is mounted upon rollers 13. The said frame is formed with ways 0, extending transversely across it near each end, in which are adapted -to slide the head-blocks D, in which arejournaled the shafts of two parallel rollers, E, which project at one end, and are provided with ratchet-wheels F, the latter being held by pawls G, secured to the head-block. The rollers are for the purpose of holding the material to be quilted, which is wound upon them, a portion being stretched between the two. One of the head-blocks has open oblique slots H, leading to the bearings for the rollershafts, for the purpose of permitting the rollers to be readily removed from or inserted in the frame. One of the head-blocks is divided, as shown at I, and the carriage has a recess, K,

as shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, whereby piovis- J .which the quilting-frame may..be elevated or depressed to suit any sewing-machine. The screw-legs P have pointsp at their lower ends, which form bearings upon which the screws may be turned without shifting the frame, as the points take slightly into the floor and hold the said frame. One of the beams, L, is provided with a. rail, R, the rollers on the corresponding wheel of the frame being grooved, so as to run upon the rail as a guide.

In operition the material to be quilted is wound upon the rollers in the quilting-frame. The sewing-machine N is placed between the ends of the two beams L, Fig. 1, at one side of the apparatus, with the needle-bar arm extending over one of the rollers. The stitching is spaced by moving the frame A along the supporting-beam, the sewing being accom-- ABRAM HEARTSILL.

Witnesses:

J. (J. M. BOYLE, E. GODDARD. 

